Re: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.

["John C. A. Bambenek" <bambenek () gmail com>]

Because most of the net libertarians insist that they should do
whatever they want and everyone else should help cater to them.

Liberty for me but not for thee.

On 7/27/09, Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, William Pitcock wrote:
>
> > It is widely known that AT&T loves censorship.  They love censorship
> > because it is profitable for them to love censorship, and this isn't the
> > first time they have enmasse blocked access to a website they didn't
> > like.  This has nothing at all to do with forged ACK responses, and
> > everything to do with content.
>
> How does breaking things (censorship) make them more money?
>
> http://njabl.org/faq.html#Q12
>
> > AT&T does not have the right to filter what their users can access,
> > period.  You can put all the spin on it that you want, but in the end
> > it's about content.
>
> Whatever happened to "My network, my rules?"  If AT&T blocks something,
> and as an AT&T customer, you don't like it, get your connectivity from
> someone else.
>
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